Luis Perez Dasmarinas

Luis Perez Dasmarinas (died 1603) was Governor and Captain-General of the Philippines from 3 December 1593 to 14 July 1596, succeeding Pedro de Rojas and preceding Francisco de Tello de Guzman.

Biography
Luis Perez Dasmarinas was the son of Gomez Perez Dasmarinas, a Spanish general and Governor of the Philippines. Gomez had Luis appointed as his second-in-command for an expedition from Manila to capture the fort at Terrenate in the Moluccas, and Luis was named Captain-General as well. 900 Spanish troops aboard 200 ships embarked on the expedition, but the Chinese galley rowers mutinied against the Spanish and killed most of the Spanish soldiers as they slept. Gomez was killed during this expedition, and Pedro de Rojas was governor for 40 days; Luis Perez became the new governor after his father's will named him as his successor. In 1593, Perez Dasmarinas set out to conquer Cambodia, igniting the Cambodian-Spanish War. 120 Spaniards, Japanese, and Filipinos, sailing aboard three junks, launched an expedition to Cambodia. After an altercation between the Spanish expedition members and some Chinese merchants at the port left a few Chinese dead, the Spanish were forced to confront the newly-declared king Anacaparan, burning much of his capital while defeating him. In 1599, Malay Muslim merchants defeated and massacred almost the entire contingent of Spanish troops in Cambodia, putting an end to Spanish plans to conquer it. Another expedition, one to conquer Mindanao, was also lacking in success. In 1603, during a Chinese rebellion, Perez Dasmarinas was beheaded, and his head was mounted in Manila along with those of several other Spanish soldiers.